Nature's mountain mansion : wonder, wrangles, bloodshed, and bellyaching from nineteenth-century Yosemite /
"Nature's Mountain Mansion is the first anthology on Yosemite that focuses exclusively on the nineteenth century, the critical period in which Yosemite was "discovered" by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the country's most visited national parks. While there...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2022]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Nature's Mountain Mansion is the first anthology on Yosemite that focuses exclusively on the nineteenth century, the critical period in which Yosemite was "discovered" by an expanding nation and transformed into one of the country's most visited national parks. While there are volumes that provide readings about Yosemite in the nineteenth century, few provide critical--sometimes even disparaging--eyewitness reflections on the Yosemite experience, and none include excerpts from the government documents that defined the future of the park, such as the Yosemite Valley Grant Act of 1864. This anthology collects selections from fiction, nonfiction, and government documents that demonstrate the glory, the brutality, and the controversies surrounding this extraordinary and much-loved landscape. Some selections have not appeared in print since their original publication, while others have not been republished or excerpted for decades"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 360 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781496232519 1496232518 1496234189 9781496234186 |